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...With two or three exceptions, the 56 were all young men and women. Communism in the rural districts is the party of the fainéants (lazy no-goods). Young people here don't want to work any more; they don't want to work from dawn till sunset, as I did, and my father, and my grandfather. They don't want to bend down as far as we did-the earth is too near the ground for them. They want to have the earth on the table. They vote Communist because the Communists promise them...
...only begun. In an openhanded mood at the war's end, Congress awarded all veterans, under certain conditions, free hospital care for the rest of their lives for any ailment whatsoever. V.A. estimates that its peak hospital load (if there are no more wars) will not come till...
...Brien began to write about a new topic-his illness. From a hospital, he kept up his column with the aid of a dictating machine, datelined it "Cell 308." Some of his readers thought he had eye trouble; his sight had been failing for a long time. Not till three months ago did Pat tell his readers that he had cancer. Even then he tried to give them humor, albeit tightlipped. He wrote: "[The cancer] was near the base of the spine. . . . Getting it out involved considerable damage to adjacent and innocent property. ... It was as if a crew...
...been before, Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...
...which to gather dust. Rival service arms had to be watched for symptoms of credit-grabbing. Above all, callers with something to offer that might help win the war had to be given The Treatment: identified, badged and tirelessly "channeled" from building to building and service to service till they wound up in despair back at Union Station...